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\"Life<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been 50 years since the first settlers arrived and humans began living on Mars. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

May 18th,<\/sup> 2452: I\u2019ve lived here on Mars all of my life, but that can\u2019t be said for some of the old timers. They knew a different life before launching into the stars. Earth had been dying. Years of reckless fossil fuel burning, tail-to-tail traffic jams, and plundering Mother Earth of her natural resources led to the planet rebelling. Humanity needed an alternative, and our red cousin provided the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I live in New Canterbury, named after the home of the engineers who designed one of the first transport ships, which is the most advanced of the red planet\u2019s cities. We have a burgeoning population of settlers and Marsborn humans — funnily enough now referred to as Martians. The old timers sometimes look up to the skies and yearn for what once was, but me? Nah. This red rock is all I\u2019ve known. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life whilst living on Mars<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Life<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Life is pretty normal here, my home is stationed within one of the many Hab Complexes that make up New Canterbury. The city is high above what is now sea level on the slopes of Olympus Mons — a purposeful choice thanks to the rising sea levels. Sure, positioning a settlement on the slopes of the solar system\u2019s biggest volcano might not sound sensible, but there hasn\u2019t been a peep from it\u2026 yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our atmosphere is controlled enough that we\u2019re able to breathe freely and walk the surface. In fact, nowadays, Mars looks much like earth. The vegetation and plant life is widespread, as are the oceans. It wasn\u2019t always that way. My father had it hard. He remembers Mars as the red, dusty inhospitable rock that it was for millenia before us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He worked the nearby silver mine. Tearing through the rusty rock for minerals which in turn we would use for our Martian currency. Thanks to those mines, and people like my father, our colony expanded rapidly. Our very own shining star, the Orbital Surveyor, crisscrossed our sky morning, day and night. It seeks out the most efficient and mineral rich areas to mine and has increased our revenue endlessly. With the help of the satellite, we\u2019ve even expanded our mines deep into Valles Marineris<\/a>, the monster 4000km long 7km deep canyon. Old timers have shown me photos of what they called \u201cThe Grand Canyon\u201d<\/em> that looks like a small crack compared with this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the other end of the spectrum, we looked to the sky for farming. Huge sky farms dominate areas of the atmosphere. Their purpose is simply to produce everything that we need to survive, whilst also maintaining our life-sustaining atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What could be next after living on Mars?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re all fully aware that our world is fragile. It needs to be perfectly balanced, and constantly. Take, for example, yesterday\u2019s AtomGen Suite shutdown. That caused some headaches, literally, as pressure and oxygen maintenance began to go offline and engineers worked around the clock to stabilize our environment. Thus is life as a Martian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s next for us? Who knows. Although, I\u2019m beginning to see posters talking of Venus around the Varian V space port. I hear it\u2019s warmer there, naturally. Maybe I\u2019ll sign up to one of the ships there and lead the next terraforming expedition. After all, it\u2019s a great big universe, and I\u2019m here to settle the stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been 50 years since the first settlers arrived and humans began living on Mars.  May 18th, 2452: I\u2019ve lived here on Mars all of my life, but that can\u2019t be said for some of the old timers. They knew a different life before launching into the stars. Earth had been dying. Years of reckless … <\/p>\n

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